“I was in New York,” the Project Runway host recalls on Tuesday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “I was actually in Haiti first and Sandy was first in Haiti and then it traveled up to New York. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have this twice.’ And I kind of did have it twice. I went to New York and then Sandy came to New York and it was crazy.”

The Hurricane-chasing former Victoria’s Secret model realized that there was no way she could throw her annual Halloween shindig amid the storm’s devastation.

“So many people have lost their homes and other people have lost a family member,” she continues. “I didn’t think it was right to dress up and drink and dance. And so I rescheduled it.”